⁷ Lo, I cry out -- violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.

² Till when, O Jehovah, have I cried, And Thou dost not hear? I cry unto Thee -- `Violence,' and Thou dost not save.

³ Why dost Thou shew me iniquity, And perversity dost cause to behold? And spoiling and violence `are' before me, And there is strife, and contention doth lift `itself' up,

⁸ Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer.

²⁰ I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me.

⁸ Because from the time I speak I cry out, `Violence and destruction,' I cry, For the word of Jehovah hath been to me For reproach and for derision all the day.

² My God, I call by day, and Thou answerest not, And by night, and there is no silence to me.

⁸ Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

⁵ For Job hath said, `I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,

³⁵ Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written.

³⁶ If not -- on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself.

³ O that I had known -- and I find Him, I come in unto His seat,

⁴ I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill `with' arguments.

⁵ I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me.

⁶ In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth `it' in me.

⁷ There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.

²⁷ Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully.

²¹ And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend.

¹⁷ Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer `is' pure.

¹⁸ O earth, do not thou cover my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry.

¹⁹ Also, now, lo, in the heavens `is' my witness, And my testifier in the high places.

¹⁵ Lo, He doth slay me -- I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue.

¹⁶ Also -- He `is' to me for salvation, For the profane cometh not before Him.

¹⁷ Hear ye diligently my word, And my declaration with your ears.

¹⁸ Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous.

¹⁹ Who `is' he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.

²⁰ Only two things, O God, do with me: Then from Thy face I am not hidden.

²¹ Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me.

²² And call Thou, and I -- I answer, Or -- I speak, and answer Thou me.

²³ How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know.

¹⁵ If I have done wickedly -- wo to me, And righteously -- I lift not up my head, Full of shame -- then see my affliction,

¹⁶ And it riseth -- as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back -- Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me.

¹⁷ Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare `are' with me.

³ Is it good for Thee that Thou dost oppress? That Thou despisest the labour of Thy hands, And on the counsel of the wicked hast shone?

³² But if a man like myself -- I answer him, We come together into judgment.

²⁴ Earth hath been given Into the hand of the wicked one. The face of its judges he covereth, If not -- where, who `is' he?